Thursday, October 26, 2006

django on windows mobile 5

Hey, I just got the web framework django running on a Windows Mobile 5 PDA. I'm running under python 2.5 from here.

There is a bit of messing about which I'll blog about later but mostly it's installing stuff and getting around the lack of the command line shell. The only other tip is to start the development server with --noreload.

As sqlite3 is available it should be possible to build a proper web app but I haven't tried that just yet.

17 comments:

Way cool! I have been playing with Python on my WM5 device as well and now I am truely inspired. Thanks for your efforts and willingness to let the world know. Please post more details when you get a chance, particularly if you get sqlite3 working.

I got it to work on an old iPaq 5500 under Windows Mobile 2003. Just one problem. When transferring the django folder, WM2003 converts all file and folder names that are 8 characters long or less to upper case. I had to change them all back to lower case. It took a while, but having done it, django worked fine with Python 2.5.

That's the way that I did it. I put the SD card into the slot on my laptop (WinXP) and simply dragged the folder over. On the laptop, all names were in lower case, but on the iPaq some had been converted to upeer case. Put the card back in the laptop and they were all lower case. Bizarre.One to look out for if you are using Windows Mobile 2003.

Although not used under django, however I had written a raw application that would use lissard template for generating html. For the same had used sqlite3. So yes sqlite3 worked there and should work here as well.

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